Word: bootcamp
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...Bootcamp. Sweat and grunts. Live grenades, M-16 rifles, obstacle courses, combat practice. Cliffs, swamps, minefields, foxholes, helicopter pads. No place for women? Nowadays they undergo the rigors of military training right alongside the men. TIME's Joelle Attinger joined the Marines at Quantico, Va., for part of a three-day mock war, the final exercise of 21 weeks of training completed by 239 male and 15 female second lieutenants. Her report...
...their civilian contemporaries. He radically changed the service's restrictive dress code by permitting modish haircuts, beards and sideburns and eliminating the requirement for frequent uniform changes during the day. (This does not apply, however, to the lowly inductee, whose hair is still cropped when he enters bootcamp.) Zumwalt also revised the duty rotation system and the fleet's operating schedules to give his men more time at home with their families. He established ombudsmen and generally strengthened the machinery for redress of grievances...
...began in 1944 when it was decided that waitresses were far too pretty and hence far too dangerous to be allowed to coexist with students, even in dining halls. The punishment: perpetual bootcamp-type cafeteria service...